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VIDEO: Avoid holding DMARDs as much as possible in perioperative care

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ORLANDO, Fla. — At the Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference, Linda Grinnell-Merrick, MS, NP-BC, discussed the perioperative care of patients with rheumatic diseases. She said that as much as possible rheumatology health care providers should avoid holding disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and biologics should just be held for the shortest time possible so the patient heals well and does not flare.

“It is not the drug that [is] putting the patient at risk for infection, but the disease state itself,” Grinnell-Merrick said.